Otto von Lossow

Otto von Lossow (15 January 1868-25 November 1938) was a Generalmajor of the Imperial German Army and the Reichswehr during World War I and the Beer Hall Putsch.

Biography
Otto von Lossow was born on 15 January 1868 in Hof, Bavaria, German Empire, and he entered the military at the age of 20. Lossow first saw action in the Boxer Rebellion in China, and he was a Lieutenant-Colonel by the time that World War I had broken out. In July 1915, he became the German military attache to the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul, and he wrote about the horrors of the Armenian Genocide. In 1919, he became a Generalmajor of the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic, commanding the infantry school from 1920 to 1923 and leading the Bavarian military district from 1923 to 1924; he was responsible for quelling the Nazi Party's Beer Hall Putsch. He died in 1938 at the age of 70.